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August 11, 2022

Judge Quashes Vancouver’s Move to Enact Bylaws on Rent Control Between Tenancies

A British Columbia court has ruled that recently enacted Vancouver bylaws prohibiting rent increases between residential tenancies, a measure referred to as vacancy control, fall outside what the city is entitled to do. The Aug. 3 Supreme Court of British Columbia judg...

August 4, 2022

Investing in Rental Stock: How the Industry is Renewing Existing Rental Buildings

*An original version of this article was first published in the summer 2022 edition of The Key magazine. British Columbia is filled with countless aging purpose-built rental buildings (PBRs) constructed between the 1950s and 1980s, many of them nearing the end of their...

May 19, 2022

Residential Tenancy Branch to Record Hearings

Advocacy is sometimes a long game. For years LandlordBC has pushed for more oversight of the Residential Tenancy Branch’s (RTB) Dispute Resolution hearings through the recording of hearings. These efforts go back to our initial involvement as part of the RTB’s stakeholder...

May 11, 2022

Running in the 2022 Municipal Election? Please Read This

In 2018, in the weeks leading up to the municipal elections that year, LLBC released a paper entitled “The Only Long-Term Solution to the Rental Housing Crisis”. With the impending municipal elections in October of this year, we’ve decided to re-publish the article witho...

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